cascata

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈka.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: ca‧scà‧ta

Etymology 1

From cascare +‎ -ata; cognate with Piedmontese cascà; from Latin cāsus (“fallen”).

Noun

cascata f (plural cascate)

1. cascade, waterfall
2. (informal, rare) fall
3. cascade (hairpiece for women)

Derived terms

• a cascata
• lista a cascata

Descendants

• → French: cascade
  • → Danish: kaskade
  • → Dutch: cascade
  • → English: cascade
  • → German: Kaskade
  • → Romanian: cascadă
  • → Swedish: kaskad
• → Maltese: kaskata
• → Portuguese: cascata
• → Spanish: cascada
  • → Catalan: cascada

See also

• rapida
• cataratta

Etymology 2

Participle

cascata f sg

1. feminine singular of cascato

Anagrams

• saccata

Portuguese

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cascata

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Etymology

Borrowed from Italian cascata (“cascade, waterfall”), ultimately from Latin cāsus (“fallen”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kasˈka.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kasˈka.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʃˈka.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kasˈka.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐʃˈka.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: cas‧ca‧ta

Noun

cascata f (plural cascatas)

1. cascade
   1. waterfall
   2. series of events
   3. big lie
2. (informal) vagina (woman's genitalia)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina

Derived terms

• cascatear

Further reading

• “cascata”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cascata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025